Friday, July 23, 2010

Craft Fail and I am featured at Friendly Friday!

Morning ladies! I am so excited to have my first ever feature anywhere for any reason :) Yay! So if you are here from Friendly Friday... hi! Welcome! I apologize for your possible first post here to be a fail but, a las, I am not always perfect hehe.

Ok, so here is a bit of an interesting project. I had this amazingly wonderful idea in my head. Well...that is where that idea stayed... in my head, because what I came up with is so not amazingly wonderful.

I am sure you have seen the really cute twine wrapped letters, balls, just about everything. I wanted to do this, but I could not for the life of me find twine, and I decided I would wrap letters in yarn, I like the little fuzzies and thought it would be, you guessed it, amazingly wonderful! Well it sucked and here is why:

I started out with these items: wooden letters, paint, crackle, glaze, yarn and a paint brush.

I wrapped and wrapped and wrapped and wrapped and ... well, you get the idea. I ended up with this:

In case you are wondering what this is, this is a frustrated, potty mouth mess. What happened is all the

wrapping, trying to get the curve of the letters, it ended up just looking like a big yarn tumor. It was hideous.

Seriously, I am not being dramatic, it was awful. So...away with the yarn.

I figured, I have paint and crackle...I can just paint them! A ha! ... or not.

After about 900 coats of paint they were finally covered to my liking. The crackle did indeed crackle...microscopically. So if you looked at them REALLY close you could see the crackle. But from the couch, looking at the mantle, you saw plain brown letters. Wow...how exciting.

So I decided to add a few of the left over flowers from my paper flower wall hanging I showed you on Monday. Except well...I dunno I am so unhappy with this project. It just kinda sucks, and is lame!

This is where you come in, do you have ANY idea how on earth I can save this blah project!?

I'm a new follower from FF. I don't know what to tell you about the letters. I think they look kind of like leather and I like them. Maybe you should live w/ them for awhile and see how you feel. You could move them to another place in the house where they'd be seen up close??Hope you can come see me some time too.

I recently did the crackle. I read you had to paint one color and dry, put the crackle on and when it was almost dry then you put on a color of a contrast and it would show up. I learned the hard way myself that 1) don't let the crackle dry over night, doesn't work! 2) don't paint the crackle on something that is standing on edge (not flat) b/c you get really bad runny lines :(. Mine were base coat green then yellow. Mine did crackle when I did it right. I will admit though, I like your letters! I don't think it is a fail!

Congrats on your feature. I love seeing people decorate with letters, though I'm not crafty at all so I can't help. Good luck though and it still looks good, but I bet you'll find something to help make it stand out.

Wow my sis is a celebrity :) I can see you not only here but on another blog too. I think your letters look fine and agree that they have a leathery look to them.If you want something different why not try doing another layer of crackle then a lighter shade of brown. Maybe finish off by sanding the edges to grunge them up a bit. IDK, just a suggestion.And by the way, this was NOT a fail.

I like the ivy idea, I love ivy. I should also maybe try another layer of crackle. I did a beige ontop of brown so I did do two shades... I will try again though, oh and sanding the edges is good and I just picked up sand paper today! hehe

Congrats on being featured! Love the new blog layout :) Ok, I think the project turned out pretty darn cute, but I have something sort of like that and I coated my letters with scrapbook paper and mod podge! Those two items fix EVERYTHING! Ha! I used three diff. fall scrapbook papers and alternated letters, I use it as my centerpiece on my fireplace for fall!

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Love, love, love the brown and pink. Twine is hard to find, but I scored some last year at Target for $1 for a 9 ft. pack. I bought THREE packs and have had NO plans for it other than using some at my son's cowboy themed b-day party LAST year. NOW I know what I'll do with my leftover twine. Thanks!!!! =) Great looking blog and I'm your newest follower! Check my blog out @ www.swonderful2beme.blogspot.com

It's kind of cute, but honestly when I first looked I was like, Redskins? oops! Sorry! ;) I think you need more splashes of brighter colors. Can you add some spots/polka dots or stripes to these letters? That might bring a lot out of it! Good luck!

Hello,I am a new follower from Friendly Fridays! I am not the greatest crafter, so nice to know im not the only one who fails sometimes, lol have a great weekend, here is my blog linkhttp://thecouponqueenbee.blogspot.com/

if you had used a different yarn (say linen) the hold would've been better on the wooden letters. maybe a glue gun would've also have come in handy too. with the yarn you used, i'm surprised that it didn't split off into the two different colors. what about using fabric pieces and doing decoupage?? i dunno..just an idea!

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